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If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.
Idries Shah
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Idries Shah
Age: 72 †
Born: 1924
Born: June 16
Died: 1996
Died: November 23
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You need not wonder whether you should have an unreliable person as a friend. An unreliable person is nobody's friend.
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Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious.
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From time to time ponder whether you are unconsciously saying: 'Truth is what I happen to be thinking at this moment.
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Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives.
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To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.
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The sufis believe that they can experience something more complete.
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If, from time to time, you give up expectation, you will be able to perceive what it is you are getting.
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The Sufi way is through knowledge and practice, not through intellect and talk.
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When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.
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If you are uninterested in what I say, there's an end to it. If you like what I say, please try to understand which previous influences have made you like it. If you like some of the things I say, and dislike others, you could try to understand why. If you dislike all I say, why not try to find out what formed your attitude?
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When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
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The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.
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Right time, right place, right people equals success. Wrong time, wrong place, wrong people equals most of the real human history.
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It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information.
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A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything.
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The chicken had his wish, and was magically transformed into a fox. Then he found that he could not digest grain.
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When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it.
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There is a Persian proverb: 'To test that which has been tested is ignorance.' To try to test something without the means of testing is even worse.
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